[pct-l] Response to the moderator of this site regarding the diety

[metam01 at earthlink.net (Monty Tam)]

Thank You Ed.  Calmly using my delete button has been my solution to this
stuff.
I just had a thought.  If I had just joined the list a few days ago and
seen all this stuff, I would have missed all this site has to offer.
The Q & A on the PCT is the reason I'm mainly connected.
I would have opted out.

Whether it is or is not, it fringes on what I've coined as "spiritual
tresspassing."


> [Original Message]
> From: ed <meadowed@comcast.net>
> To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Date: 9/27/2005 10:01:31 PM
> Subject: [pct-l] Response to the moderator of this site regarding the
diety
>
> I am in total agreement with his comment about this site is not the proper
> place to discuss rather one thinks there is a god or not......As a long
time
> trail angle who has talked to as many hikers over the last 10 years as
> anyone on the west coast i think i can have a say here.
> Yes, there are many hikers who profess that they feel the presence of a
> supreme being out on the trail....thats fine, i can almost admire
that....I
> would also say just as many feel that smelling the pine trees in the
breeeze
> or seeing MT. Rainer is the ANSWER to the why ?    I do know that in most
> instances and i say most, very carefuly here i might add, that in a group
of
> hikers of 4 or more folks this existence of a god is rarely talked about.
i
> have been asked this very question of the existence of a god for many
years
> from lots of people who think that christen hikers predominate the PCT.
> ..more so when they find out maby there are more non belivers out
> there..then beleivers. Hikers tend to respect each other for many reasons
> and even admire other hikers for just as many reasons ; however when it
> comes down to the question of do you or do you not belive in the existence
> of a god its not that big of a deal out on the trail....We hikers  tend to
> not care or at least discuss what others think about this thread and i
think
> that it needs to be put to bed here before we angry folks....The first
> reason and perhaps the most important reason this site was put here was
for
> the benefit and discusion of people who hike the PCT as well as other
> trails. Lots of folks seem to hang out here who perhaps have not a lot to
> add to or for that matter anything to say that we hikers even want to hear
> anyway........meadow ed
>
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